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Elsewhere we have “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” [1] and it doesn't paint a bright future for OpenAI. If they didn't target any problem, will OpenA

by thih9 4y ago

Elsewhere we have “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” [1] and it doesn't paint a bright future for OpenAI. If they didn't target any problem, will OpenAI continue to be worth $30 billion if/when LLMs become as accessible as, say, relational databases? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322

RC_ITR 4y ago
RDMS are a solved problem, but Oracle is still a quarter-trillion dollar company.
- Gys 4y ago
  Vendor lock-in working well? How could OpenAI implement that?
  - RC_ITR 4y ago
    Like any other company in the history of time has. Get in early, be best-in-class for the important part of the development cycle and make it hard to switch.
sebzim4500 4y ago
That article makes a convincing argument that there is no moat around GPT-3.5 or Bard, but at present no one else is anywhere near GPT-4.